cantometrics

Too often Mr. Szwed gets swamped tallying the onslaught of dizzying ideas and unfinished projects of Lomax in his later years — there is a half-mad quality to these attempts to ma ke sense of such nebulous theories as "cantometrics."

The Catcher of Songs Eddie Dean 2011

His interest in songs extended to the way they were sung and lead him into the world of cantometrics, “a method for systematically and holistically describing the general features of accompanied or unaccompanied song. "

Alan Lomax 1915